Doploying Ubuntu(Hoary) with FAI
Introduction
The method discribed at
http://www.sprang.de/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_install_with_FAI did not work
for me at all with the following spcifications:
* FAI 2.8
* Install Server: sarge
* Target System: Ubuntu hoary
/fai-setup/ does not finish, because there are lots of unresolvable
depencies und missing packages. Even if I tweaked in the /chroot/ and
installed missing packages from other distributions, I ran into perl
(and other) troubles ion the targetsystem. So I decided to change the
strategy.
The way it works
* Install fai on a sarge system
* Run fai-setup and set it up to your needs
* Chose an install kernel - I think it is better to build it from
2.6 because the target system will use a kernel 2.6
* Run make-fai-bootfloppy
* Test it ;-)
* Move /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot to /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot.sarge
* Install ubuntus debootstrap
* Set FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="hoary http://$mirrorhost/ubuntu"; (or
something) in make-fai-nfsroot
* Set /etc/fai/source.list to ubuntu sources
* Run /make-fai-nfsroot/. If it fails, execute
cd /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot
mount -t proc /proc proc
chroot .
* Try to install the missing packages from where ever. Leave the
chroot with CTRL-D
* Rerun
make-fai-nfsroot -v -r
* As long as you don't get a message /Building base.tgz/ repeat the
chroot trick.
* Once base.tgz is buildt, you are done. Move nfsroot to nfsroot.hoary
* Move nfsroot.sarge back to nfsroot
* Copy the content of /nfsroot.hoary/var/tmp/ to /nfsroot/var/tmp/
(base-pkgs.lis base.tgz packages.arch)
* Set /nfsroot/etc/apt/source.list/ to ubunto sources
* Its safe to restart the nfs-server
* Change the kernel to /linux-image-686/ in DEFAULT
* To build a desktop system add somewhere the package /ubuntu-desktop/
* Start the target system, get a bier and enjoy the unattended
installation. After a reboot your desktop should come up with a
configured xserver.
martin tanzer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
